What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

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